Perry One, dubbed “Operation Strong Safety,” was called for by Gov. Rick Perry to bolster border security at a time of increased illegal immigration. It is estimated to cost $12…
Studies suggest content impacts development of language skills
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted for abuse of power after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. The Republican governor…
Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, held on a 600-acre pasture in the Catskill Mountains near White Lake in Bethel, New York, was a cultural phenomenon that still reverberates today, 45…
Customers leave a Shop’n Save grocery store in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Supervalu said Friday a potential data breach may have impacted about 200 of its stores and reached stores it…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been indicted by a Travis County, Texas, grand jury on charges of abusing his powers by promising to veto funding for the state the state…
Ram Chandran demonstrates his prayers in his bedroom at ShantiNiketan, a retirement community for people from India, in Tavares, Fla. Chandran leads a Hindu group prayer for residents at a…
President Richard Nixon sits at his desk at the White House in Washington on Jan. 21, 1969. Nixon suffered a stroke in 1994 and died days later at age 81.Associated…
Research shows that participation in formal swim lessons can reduce drowning risk by 88 percent, “so even if a child knows how to swim, there’s not a 100 percent chance”…
Capt. Ronald Johnson of the Missouri Highway Patrol hugs Angela Whitman, of Berkeley, Mo., in Ferguson, Mo., Thursday. Ferguson police have identified the officer involved in the shoooting death of…
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials are saying that another troubling slip-up took place at one of the agency’s labs in January that could have exposed scientists to a…
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters today in Edgartown, Mass. about developments in Iraq and the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missour. Obama is vacationing on the…
The Mendenhall Glaicer spills over the mountains above Mendenhall Lake in Juneau, Alaska. More than two-thirds of the recent rapid melting of the world’s glaciers can be blamed on humans,…
Governor urges city to ‘step back a little bit’
HIDALGO, Texas – The first wave of National Guard troops has taken up observation posts along the Texas-Mexico border. Texas National Guard Master Sgt. Ken Walker of the Joint Counterdrug…
Negotiations for a permanent truce between Israel and Hamas are continuing slowly, although Egypt and Palestinian negotiators said the two sides had extended a cease-fire for another five days. An…
SAN FRANCISCO –Sheriff’s officials in the San Francisco Bay Area defended their decision to release details about how actor Robin Williams killed himself, saying state law requires they be disclosed…
Pope Francis waves upon his arrival Thursday at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, South Korea, as South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, looks on. Pope Francis has arrived here on…
From left, Robert Roman and Claus Ihlemann, of Virginia Beach, celebrate a ruling on February 14 by federal Judge Arenda Wright Allen that Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional. The…
Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, Ben Rhodes, speaks during a news briefing in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Wednesday. Rhodes discussed the refugee…
Police advance through smoke Wednesday in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death…
WASHINGTON – Hundreds of thousands of people who signed up under the new health-care law risk losing their taxpayer-subsidized insurance unless they act quickly to resolve questions about their citizenship…
An officer Tuesday locks the entrance to a site that archaeologists are excavating at an ancient mound in Amphipolis, Greece.ALexandros Michailidis/Associated Press Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who visited the tightly-guarded…
CANBERRA, Australia – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday described a photograph of a Sydney-born 7-year-old boy clutching the severed head of a Syrian soldier as “disturbing” and…
